Law Firms

Where there’s a will, there’s a way to do it yourself with Internet services such as LegalZoom, Nolo and Rocket
Lawyer. But attorneys say relying on online form providers for long-term financial and estate planning may not be the wisest
investment.

Since the Probate Code Study Commission was eliminated as part of a 2014 law that reduced the number of interim study committees,
certain legislators and attorneys have mounted an effort to get the commission reinstated.

There are striking comparisons between how a candidate works to get elected and how a law firm or lawyer can develop new business.
So, if you get overly sensitized by all the campaigning, refocus your attention on the process and you might find a few good
ideas to try for yourself.

An Indianapolis attorney said he will be assisting the family of late former NFL player Lawrence Phillips document brain injuries
that might have contributed to his apparent suicide in a California prison this week.

The sweeping medical malpractice claims against Dr. Arvind Gandhi and other practitioners at Cardiology Associates of Northwest
Indiana could take years to unwind, and they may change the calculus that sets surcharges physicians pay to the Indiana Patient’s
Compensation Fund.

With its acquisition by Access Group, Bloomington-based Lawyer Metrics will be positioned to apply its data analysis expertise,
and possibly increase its role, in helping legal education and the profession as a whole navigate ongoing changes.

Lea Shelemey learned about collaborative divorce a dozen years ago when she heard what lawyers were doing in her native Alberta,
Canada. She’s been sold ever since, but she wishes more lawyers were trained in the process and more clients were willing
to take the option

As part of Indiana Lawyer’s commemoration of its silver anniversary this year, we asked a varied group of attorneys
to look ahead to the year 2040. They outlined what they thought the profession would be like, how they hoped the profession
would change, and what they did not want the profession to become.

An Elkhart solo practitioner must pay his former legal assistant more than $85,000 after she sued him to recover unpaid wages
owed to her over the course of two years, the Court of Appeals affirmed Wednesday.

A handcuffed Evan Greebel walked out of the FBI’s New York headquarters a few steps ahead of ex-Retrophin Inc. CEO Martin
Shkreli, but prosecutors say the men were side- by-side when it came to a multimillion dollar fraud at the company’s
expense.

Hoosier attorneys and their Kentucky colleagues had to find ways to write agreements to bring four state highway and financing
agencies together to cooperate across state lines in a manner that complied with their own statutes.

The traditional career path for Indiana attorneys – graduate from law school, become an associate in a law firm, work
long hours and eventually become a partner – appears to be broken, or at least cracked.

By a more than 2-to-1 margin, attorneys who responded to the IL survey said their organization encourages them to promote
themselves and their firm or organization, compared to those who said their organization discourages social media.